Alexandrina MITLCHEVA
(Bulgaria)
Alexandrina Mitlcheva made her debut as Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Varna State Opera. After having won the First Grand Prix at the Toulouse International Singing Competition in 1966 her career transcded onto the international plane. She has been a member of the National Opera in Sofia, Bulgaria since 1968. In 1976 she was invited by former director Prof. Egon Seefehlner to join the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where she has been one of the leading mezzo-sopranos for a period of more than fifteen years. She has performed all of the major roles of the repertoire at such opera houses as La Scala,Milan, the Paris Opera, Covent Garden of London, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Hamburg Opera, the Arena di Verona, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Liceo in Barcelona, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the MET, as well as in Salzburg, Edinburgh, Moscow, and San Francisco . Her concert repertoire includes works by Verdi, Mozart, Pergolesi, Rossini, Haendel, Bach, Mahler, and Franck, and as a recitalist she has explored the music of the great lieder composers and also the Russian songs of Moussorgski, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovski. Alexandrina Mitlcheva has performed under all major conductors, such as Karajan, Metha, Maazel, Ormandy, De Fabbritis, and especially Muti. She is one of the singers with the richest discography, including operas, recitals, oratorios, lieder and symphonic works.
Parallel to her career as a performing singer, Alexandrina Mitlcheva has been working as a pedagogue for over fifteen years, and in 1994 she created her own music school- The International Opera Academy Sacra. The academy is situated in Sofia, Bulgaria. Some of the students, which have participated in courses of singing and interpretation, are successful performers, making international career. She has carried out master classes at the International Bach Academy, the Paris Opera House, the Paris Conservatory, and others.
Alexandrina Mitlcheva belongs to the generation of opera singers, such as Freni, Pavarotti, Domingo, Dimitrova, Kabaivanska, Ghiaurov, which have made opera an exquisite art.